Combined or laminated material.



No. 696,567. Patented Apr. I |902.

J. T. JOHNSON.

COMBINED 0R LAMINATED MATERIAL.

Application filed 00L. 30. 1899.)

(No Model.)

UNrTno dTaTne aTnNT @Trient COMBENED OR LAii/HNATED MATERIAL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letter s .Patent No. 696,567, dated april1, 1902.

Application led October 30, 1899. Serial No. 735,257. (No specimens.)

To Cl/ZZ who-7m t 71u03/ concern/.-

Be it known that I, JACOB T. JOHNSON, a citizen of the United States,residing at Knox;- Ville, in the county of Knox and State of Tennessee,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combined orLaminated Material, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a yielding combination or laminated material,and the object of the same is to construct an appropriate material orarticle of manufacture for chair seats and backs or other uses, the saidmaterial consisting of a body layer or laminze of suitably-woven textilefabric, the strain or Warp-threads of each layer or lamina running at anangle differing from those in each adjacent layer, thus producing astrong dexible supporting-body with the lines of strain running indifferent directions, and to a surface of said supporting-body soconstructed is cemented, woven, or otherwise fastened a layer or laminaof pure or other grade of rubber, rubber compound, plush, pantasote,felt, leatherette, leather, or other suitable soft or yielding material.

Afurther object of my invention is to manufacture a goods suitable forthe purposes hereinbefore mentioned and which will be noiseless,durable, pleasing, and inexpensive.

My invention finally consists in the novel combination and arrangementof parts hereinafter more fully described, and particularly pointed outin the claims.

In describing my invention in detail reference is had to theaccompanying drawings, forming a part of the specification, wherein likenumerals of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout theseveral views thereof, and in which- Figure lis a perspective View oftwo pieces of fabric, showing the strain or warp-threads running atright angles. Fig. 2 is a similar View of three pieces of fabriccrossing each other, showing the strain or warp-threads arranged indifferent angles. Fig. 3 is a perspective View of a piece of purerubber, rubber compound, plush, pantasote, leather, leatherette, felt,or other soft or yielding material. Fig. 4 is a perspective View of thecompleted article or fabric with the iinish layer of rubber, rubbercompound, plush,

Referring to the drawings, the numerals l and 2 designate layers of myimproved combination goods or falbric having the strain or warp-threads3 and Woof-threads 4 running lengthwise and crosswise of the same atangles to each other.

5 indicates two-or more layers of my fabric, producing a strongsupporting-body with the lines cf strain or warp-threads, as at 6,running in different directions aside from a right angle, theWoof-threads being `in an angular relation to the warp-threads similarlyto the said threads 4, heretofore referred to.

9 indicates a layer of pure or other grade of rubber, rubber compound,plush, pantasote, leatherette, felt, leather, or other analogousmaterial to be used as a finish layer to my improved combination goodsor fabric.

l0 indicates two or more layers after they have been cemented, woven, orotherwise secured together, producing a strong supporting-body, showingthe finish layer 9 therewith, and ll indicates one or more holes whichmay, if desired, be punched in the finished product upon being used forchair seats and backs or for other purposes.

The method which I employ in the manufacture of my improved goods orfabric is to preferably take two or more separate layers or laminze andcement or otherwise fasten them securely together in the formhereinbefore described, and shown in the drawings, or to manufacture acombination goods or fabric such that when it comes from the loom orfactory it will present a strong solid body consisting of layers,ashereinbefore described, or the layers or laminze of fabric may be Wovenor manufactured and joined separately and the finish layer afterwardapplied, the compound material thus made being strong, soft, yet onlyslightly yielding to weight.

It will be apparent that my new improved goods may be employed andusedwith advantage for various tended.

I am aware that various kinds of laminated purposes, and it is so in-IOO bodies have been employed in the manufacture of chair seats andbacks and for other purposes ;but so far as can be ascertained myimproved fabric or goods is the only lamif nated supporting-bodyconsisting of two or` dividual layers and to one side only of whichlaminated supporting-body there is applied a layer of rubber, rubbercompound, plush,

pantasote, leather, leatherette, felt, or analogous yielding material.

It is thought that the many advantages of my new improved combinationgoods can be readily understood from the foregoing description, taken inconnection with the accompanying drawings.

After the fabric or goods is entirely corn-V pleted the finished surfacemay be stained or otherwise colored as may be desired. Furthermore, thesaid finished surface may be embossed with or without coloring orstaining the same or otherwise ornamenting. The Woof of the layers offabric is indestructible and of a strong and regular nature, being inclose relation to the Warp-threads, and the latter also regular in theirarrangement.

It will be noted that various changes may be'made in the details ofconstruction without departing from the spirit of myinvention.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is- 1. As animproved article of manufacture,

a laminated body consisting of two or more layers of woven fabricpermanently secured together, the warp-threads or lines of strain ofeach layer being disposed at an anglev to the warp-threads or lines ofstrain of each adjacent layer, whereby each layer is made to check theelasticity of the other, and a top finish or layer of yielding materialof a character diiferent from that of the body, substantially as and forthe purpose specified.

2. As an improved article of manufacture a combination material inflexible sheet form and consisting of a laminated body composedexclusively of tw'o or more layers of textile fabric of a continuous orunbroken weave and similar in dimension, the said layers having both thewarp and Woof threads constantly remaining in close-woven arrangementand the warp-threads of each layer at an angle to those of the adjacentlayer or layers, whereby each layer checks the elasticity of eachadjacent layer and the entire laminated structure prevented from drawingin any direction, and a thin layer of yielding material secured toone'side only of the body, the entire combination material beingapertured at regular intervals.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixedmy signature in the presence of two witnesses.

, JACOB T. JOHNSON.

Witnesses:

D. E. Souinns, W. PERRY HAHN.

